Author: Louis Wu

Xerxes writes to say that a new German site has hit the Halo scene: Halo Orbit. (This is no relation to the defunct Orbit site which closed up 7 months ago.) Germany is becoming the biggest home for Halo out there!

Chapter 7 of $erial-ki!!A’s ongoing fan fiction story has been posted to our Fan Fiction page. Heh… when he said “before Chrsitmas”, he wasn’t kidding. Check it out!

Good Lord. 4 weeks in a row, Matt Soell’s managed to write up weekly progress reports for the Halo team (and the Oni team, we should note, posted over at Oni Central). This one is chock-full of home-cooked goodness – lots and lots and lots of weapons, oodles of net game types, D&D research… the…

Heh… thanks to Alan Stott, who passed along this article from The Register, discussing a major security breach at Microsoft. Although the Register’s spin on this story is more dramatic than, say, CNN’s, the potential damage is great. The story focused on WinMe code, but we’re wondering about the Gaming Division… personally, we’d keep an…

Jeff Campen noticed that the Halo trailer (The E3 2000 movie) holds a place of honor on the MSN WindowsMedia.com Broadband page… It’s right up in the top section. (Not new material, but interesting placement.)

The Marathon’s Story page has an update about Konrad Sherinian, former Halo team member, from an anonymous source, describing a bit more of what he had been responsible for. From the tone of the note, there is an implication that Konrad’s leaving wasn’t entirely voluntary. Details can be found in today’s What’s New entry.

When the Xbox debuts next fall, its biggest competitor will probably be the Playstation2, which was released in the US and Europe last night at midnight. The hype was tremendous… though in some cases, it was hard to tell what was actually being sold. Wait… who’s that in the background?

As Mikkel Eriksen says, it’s not just the Strike Force guys going at it! Weapons Factory, a modmaking team that focuses on multi-class, team-based play, has already announced plans for a Halo mod. The interest is building…

Thanks to Neil Grattan, who submitted a collage for our Miscellaneous Art page. A bit dark… but nice. A bit of old, good for reminiscing…

Mail from SOKAR tells us that Halo Empire has put up the largest German Halo forum – it’s made up of 4 sites from three nations: Halo Empire and Halo Information Network from Germany, Halo.ch from Switzerland, and HaloZone from Austria. Check it out… the actual forum can be found here.

As mnemesis noticed last night, the main Bungie page has had a news update. Not much there yet… but Max promises great things in the near future. Nice to hear!

noddy99 wrote to inform us that the US Halo Command is no longer dead. Well, it seems it hasn’t been dead since last month, if the news page is any indication. We’ve moved it off the dead links. (The quizlet, though, is dead… it wants to know what platform you are looking forward to playing…

Thanks to Diogo Barbosa, who submitted a pair of desktop images (variations on a theme) to our Wallpaper page. Aptly titled, those…

Thanks to Neil Grattan, who sent in a new piece of fiction for our Fan Fiction page. Go take a look!

Okay, here’s an odd one. Halo Command UK has started a section called ”Flippapers’… it’s wallpaper you can turn upside down. (The obvious question will remain unasked.) If you’re intrigued (and who wouldn’t be?), head on over and take a look! (Follow Media to Stuff, then to Flippapers.)

Thanks to 3of9 (undead), who caught this before Matt had a chance to berate us for missing it (he posted it to the R.net forum): Happy Birthday to Stefan Sinclair, another Halo Dev Team member! October is the month for Halo guys, I guess.

The Halo SETI Marines hold on to their tenuous position at number 43 in the Battle of the Teams, bumping the buffer to 23 units ahead of The IsraAliens, thanks in large part to our new recruits (hotpoo and greener) and to Banzif II’s increased crunching. Let’s keep it up! In local action, DarthFlounder increases…

The secret of the wall-hugging hippos, revealed! Well, okay, not really… just the monkey-impaling ones. Matt Soell tries on his Rudyard Kipling coat for an afternoon. Personally, I think he looks better in purple, but it’s a hell of a funny read anyway.

Back on July 26, 1999 (a week after MacWorld NY 99), we snagged a logo off the bungie.org Hotline server. It had no identifying marks, so we put it up, and asked the author to mail us. Yesterday, he did. And he told us that it was a rough version of the final product. Therefore,…

hmm… real, or imagined? Kosh drops us a note about an interesting Halo engine sighting. CheckOut.com interviewed Michael Hamlett, the lead designer of Strike Force, a Counter-Strike-like mod for UT. It’s still freeware (and not officially supported by Epic), but apparently, potential deals are in the works. At one point, Michael mentions future possibilities:We even…